Consequently, Richard challenged us again and now - due to our switcheroo to podomatic.com - this gave us an ideal opportunity to not only put the previous 'Bourne's Brain Baffler' online but, additionally, a new one for all those who enjoyed it.
Do tell us which questions you liked and if you liked it at all! Though this won't become a weekly thing - more a random 'bonus' every now and then - it is still something that most people should enjoy!
Q: What's the only upside of scoring a pitiful 6/10 on a quiz like this?
ReplyDeleteA: Realizing that such a score is good enough to beat both Simon and Jo!!
Better luck next time gents.
Personally, I clearly have no defence but I hear through the grapevine that another listener got 8/10! 8 out-of-fu**ing 10! I am trying to work out what I should have known and what I can be content to have not known...
ReplyDelete1. I was off-base with this one
2. My lack of HTTYD knowledge let me down - don't care.
3. I did not do my Kick-Ass research - should have known.
4. Know much more RHCP than... not my music
5. 1 point.
6. 2 points
7. Couldn't think... I should have known it.
8. Not watched enough of 'the animated series' - don't care.
9. 3 points
10. Don't care. Not suprised.
Well done Hatter.
I only got 5/10; did much better with the first Baffler.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I knew the Nanny McPhee one (which I haven't seen) is b/c a similar homage was used in Children of Men and I later read in the IMDb trivia that it was inspired by Pink Floyd.
Well done Rachel! Personally, I preferred the first one - if not, simply for the variety of film-history, rather than this 'contemporary' style.
ReplyDeleteRe. number four...
ReplyDeleteYou're British, you have no excuse. Your botching a Pink Floyd question (and a gift at that) is like me whiffing on a Neil Young question.
Fail!
Well done to all! I did feel that this one would be a much trickier set with questions about a few off radar films! Hope you enjoyed the challang all the same.
ReplyDeleteBattersea power station (and indeed the flying pig) crops up quite a lot in film and tv - very iconic building! I remembered the reference in children of men also- great film! Do I recall correctly that they used batersea power station for the exterior but Tate modern as the interior. Interesting. While on the topic - children of men is one of a select group of films that I feel is better than it's original source - the book read as if it exists in the same universe but with a very different and not as fulfilling plot. Does anybody else have a film that they feel fits this bracket? ( kick Ass maybe Jo?)
Richard-One film I always thought far surpassed the book was The Godfather. The film trims all the excess fat (i.e. boring subplots with expendable characters) and gets to the heart of the story.
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